Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Whenever land is proposed to be acquired in a project area, the provisions of this Act shall apply subject to the following modifications namely:- (1) for Section 11, the following section shall be substituted, namely:- 11. Enquiry and award by Collector.- On the day so fixed, or on any other day to which the enquiry has been adjourned, the Collector shall proceed to enquire into:- (a) the objections, if any, which any person interested has stated pursuant to a notice given under Section 9 to the measurements made under Section 8; (b) the value of the land at the date of the publication of the notification under Section 47A; (c) the value of any improvements to the land effected after the date referred to in clause (b) and before the date of the publication of the notification under sub-section (1) of Section 3; (d) where there has been a normal rise in land value in the locality in which the project area lies after the date of the publication of the notification under Section 47A and before the date of the publication of the notification under sub-section (1) of Section 3, such rise in price; (e) the value of the land at the date of the publication of the notification under sub-section (1) of Section 3; and (f) the respective interest of the persons claiming the compensation, and shall make an award under his hand of:- (i) the true area of the land; (ii) the compensation which in his opinion shall be allowed for the land; and (iii) the apportionment of the said compensation among all the persons known or believed to be interested in the land, of whom, or of whose claims, he has information, whether or not they have respectively appeared before him. Explanation.-- For the purposes of this section and clause first of sub-section (1) of Section 25, the expression "land value" shall mean value of land not including improvements thereon; (2) in sub-section (1) of Section 25, for clause first, the following clause shall be substituted, namely:- first, (a) the market value of the land at the date of the publication of the notification under Section 47A, the value of any improvements to the land effected after that date and before the date of the publication of the notification under sub-section (1) of Section 3 and, where there has been a normal rise in land value in the locality in which the project area lies after the date of the publication of the notification under Section 47A and before the date of the publication of the notification under sub-section (1) of Section 3, such rise in price subject to a maximum of twenty per cent of the market value of the land at the date of the publication of the notification under Section 47A, or (b) the market value of the land at the date of the publication of the notification under sub-section (1) of Section 3, whichever is less;]